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...plan and preferences. I then took the necessary measures to build FlipTop from the ground up without stepping on anyone else's toes. As generic as it sounds, this involved having to be completely prepared for anything and everything. To give you an idea, here I am, in the middle of a sea of supercharged egos (yes, like it or not, ego in HipHop has its own flavor of unpredictability), I see that if these egos were to fight more than they already do or have, it'll paradoxically lead to unity, if not order. And yes, it's a lot, lot harder than it already sounds. A whole lot of diplomacy is involved, predicting certain things like preventing already existing animosity from escalating, how to deal with certain personalities, how to deal with personalities when more money is involved. In other words, imagine getting an insanely varied spectrum of people who don't know each other, might even hate each other, and getting all of them to understand and believe your vision. It's the same with politics or other institutions. Person has plan, thinks plan is really good, plan requires other people, people must then believe in the plan itself for it to work sans the possibility of the whole thing imploding (e.g. Dictatorship). I try my best to get people to trust me when it comes to doing what I do and I'd like to think I've been doing an okay job so far.
VN: Whose brilliant idea was it?
AY: The company/movement known as FlipTop was my idea. And I say that...

...language change by means of word adaptation as well as familiarization of words especially on Filipino people as shown on television, internet, radio, or even newspaper. Multimedia serves as a pathway for manifesting new ideas on preserving languages like the newly formed Filipino rhythmical poetry debate known as “Fliptop Battle” popularized through “Youtube”, a very popular video sharing Web site that lets anyone upload short videos for private or public viewing.4Fliptop Battle is a rap battle league in the Philippines partake by young Filipino rappers or popularly called as battle “emcees” considered as geniuses on a contemporary Filipino language and made to help Philippine rappers promote and train both rap skills and abilities as well as to educate the masses both on a hip-hop cultural level and on a commonsensical level. The league places these rappers in a pit against each other in a battle of lyrical creativity and innate musical rhythm.5
Balagtasan is Filipino art of publicly arguing in extemporaneous, scaled and rhymed poetry manner formed by a group of Filipino poets in April 6, 1924 to commemorate the birth of Francisco Balagtas. Similar to the Fliptop Battle of contemporary period, this were fought by two different “Makata”, has a moderator, and has jurors that will decide whether who among the two excelled. 6
Balagtasan is a prominent type of literature from the time when is was discovered in 1924 until the...

...fellow language users, various contemporary pop cultures have sprung out, including Fliptop.
Fliptop Rap Battles, a facet of Filipino music, is deemed to be a reinvention of the classical ‘balagtasan’. It is composed of three rounds and is a match between two people, whoever can throw the cleverest punchline while insulting the other wins. The local hip-hop scene has never been more popular than before. The virality of Fliptop rap battles, with the use of Filipino language and new media (Youtube) as the channel, has been hip-hop music’s first giant step towards acceptance and recognition from local listeners. It uses vulgar words and insults as additional spice; thus, it is not resistant to bias, racism and sexism. Rappers, however, have gained recognition for their display of awareness of Filipino pop culture in their lyricism (Yap, 2012).
With the use of Filipino language in the exchange of thoughts, we could establish or map the dominant image of youth culture in our country. It is said that language is used to think as well as to speak. An individual’s language is influenced by his thoughts (E. M. Rogers, T. M. Steinfatt, 1998). Language, being the mirror of society and a reflection of culture, can help us understand the underlying trends and leanings of the youth.
Thus, the use of language can be a key component in analyzing and determining the dominant image of youth culture as gleaned in Fliptop Battles, a...

...A Comparative Study of the Influence of the Pinoy Rap Battle “Fliptop” and Balagtasan to High School Students of xxxxxxxxxxxx
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A Research Work
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March, 2012
Chapter I
Introduction
Fliptop is a rap battle league that puts two people in a match to have them insult each other with the cleverest punch lines and sharpest rhymes. Hip hop in the Philippines takes on many faces: from the plush and exclusive clubs in Makati to the slums of Tondo, and everywhere in between. A crowd dotted with Pinoys rocking gear ranging from grills to backpacks, FlipTop represents a space for the raw and grime of Philippine hip hop. There is no material gain at stake here. The winners take with them the pride in their skill. There are no flashy commercial sponsors. Just two emcees, the host, the judges, and the crowd. There isn’t even a microphone. This is on some guerilla-style, for real.
The battle reminds me of Balagtasan, the Filipino poetic debates. Balagtasan is probably the last poetic form which was thoroughly enjoyed by the Filipino people. As a literary form, the Balagtasan is essentially traditional; it contains elements which explain why the traditional remains...